Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three Hundred and Twenty-five Years from the Christian Era: Being a Translation of "The Commentaries on the Affairs of the Christians Before the Time of Constantine the Great,", Volume 1

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S. Converse, 1853 - 512 pages
 

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Page 163 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
Page 98 - No man taketh My life from Me, but I lay it down :of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
Page 188 - They affirmed, the whole of their guilt, or their •error, was, that they met on a certain stated day, before it was light, and addressed themselves in a form of prayer to Christ, as to some God...
Page 196 - ... and welfare of each other by a reciprocal interchange of good offices ; yet with regard to government and internal economy, every individual church considered itself as an independent community, none of them ever looking in these respects beyond the circle of its own members for assistance, or recognizing any sort of external influence or authority.
Page 218 - But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Page 170 - ... at least, if not in the others, it came, even during the life-time of the apostles, and with their approbation, to be the practice for some one man more eminent than the rest, to be invested with the presidency or chief direction. And in support of this opinion we are supplied with an argument of such strength in those " angels,
Page 196 - ... several things occur therein, which put it out of all doubt that every one of them enjoyed the same rights, and was considered as being on a footing of the most perfect equality with the rest.(') Indeed it cannot, — I will not say be proved, but even be made to appear probable, from...
Page 188 - Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up...
Page 432 - Simon of Cyrene was transformed into his likeness, and was crucified : after which Christ ascended into heaven. Basilides taught also, that men ought not to confess him who in reality was crucified, but him who came in the form of man, and was supposed to be crucified. Any reader of St.
Page 113 - Canon 01 the New Testament. Neither the names of those who were chiefly concerned in the making of this collection, nor the exact time of its being undertaken, can be ascertained with any degree of certainty ; nor is it at all necessary that we should be precisely informed as to either of these particulars : it is sufficient for us to know that it may be proved by many strong arguments, that the principal parts of the New Testament had been collected together before the death of St.

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